Maple Lane School

Maple Lane School operates as an one-room-style primary school in STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan, run under Macomb ISD. Current enrollment sits at 55 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 85% below the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Across the 7 schools in Macomb ISD (1,047 students total), Maple Lane School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Maple Lane School lists that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Maple Lane School has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Maple Lane School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Macomb County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Macomb County put median household income runs about $77,837, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Macomb County's 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), Maple Lane School is one campus in the mix.

Carleton Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 34%: 83 students in 2018 compared to 55 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 18% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 6.9:1 in 2018 to 4.2:1 today.

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